market. why not what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our key. nato excepts come on to the no fly zone over libya but not full control of the military operation while here in the capital city strikes continue to pound. japan no guidance the evacuation zone around the damaged fukushima power plant saying the area is receiving eight years of ghosts of radiation per day the facilities in reactor number three has reportedly been damaged sparking fears of further contamination also. talk of possibly imagine turned toward crimes that were committed for a walk through the american forces there the u.s. iraq veteran who burn the bridges back to his home after witnessing what he calls

a fraudulent war. and the arctic exploration assets what field between ross and b.p. has been blocked sprog stockholm's arbitration drive you to join me in twenty minutes time for. you with r.t. live from moscow where it's not just after ten pm that nato has agreed to take command of the libyan no fly zone but still short of accepting full military control alliance chief and as a photograph said the u.s. will hand over operational response of responsibility to nato with gangs meanwhile fresh air strikes have iraq the libyan capital tripoli with more reports of civilian casualties paula severe reports. well if you look specifically at the question of how many civilians have been killed or injured with thirty hearing from

coalition partners that they are not targeting civilians but here on the ground a very different story being painted state television and indeed the libyan government says more than a hundred civilians have so far been killed now i did attend a mass funeral for more than thirty people the graves were laid out the coffins were laid out the mood they vote was essentially one of anger they were easily three four five hundred people and they were shouting names it's a cozier bomber for the international community to stay out of internal affairs so the mood there a lot more angry then there are a funeral procession a different group of journalists were taken to a local hospital here in tripoli and there they filmed more than a dozen a charred bodies now they were told that these were civilians but it's always very difficult to determine who are the burned bodies and indeed who were the bodies in those coffins a government spokesperson has said that among those bodies no doubt they are fighters but if you listen to the words of the sheriff talking at that funeral

position he said that all libyans are fighters so i gave begging the question in terms of the difference between civilians and fighters we're also hearing rumors that bodies are being brought in from other fighting seem to such as the we are and that they've been presented here as casualties as civilian casualties of these airstrikes the first question that people are asking is what effect have these airstrikes which have been going on for nearly a week actually had on the ground now throughout this week there has been intense a fighting in the town of misrata which is the last rebel held town in the waist of this country and only today we're hearing the first reports that fighting there has sub judice somewhat between rebel and government forces in there for the first time people are actually able to leave their homes but we still hearing very worrying reports at the hospital remains under fire that snipers are positioned there preventing people from entering and leaving and then if you look at the other towns like agita beer which is the next main town off to bengazi there rebel fighters have been i. unable to advance for more than a week they are now literally waiting this fight out on the perimeter and hoping

record effie's forces will run out of supplies and at that stage they'll be able to actually make a difference so the word from rebels on the ground is that they want more a strike they're actually calling for more weapons and i think among them there's even the hope that they could be ground forces eventually seen tin and again people are revisiting that un resolution that talks about all this the syrian measures to bring a fright in on the ground to an end the war in questions those are that if the international community needs to get further involved in terms of the fight on the ground at the moment it's happening in urban areas so that does run the risk of being more casualties here in tripoli the mood is incredibly tense overnight there were air strikes in the east and the response the city and the city is running out of fuel and we're being told that in the next few days they could simply be no gas in any of the kitchen stations here that is policy reporting u.n. says it's alarmed by human rights violations and a possible should military in crisis in libya however not enough aid has been provided to those in need if you want to fish or saying that food supply lines are

now being disrupted official figures suggest over three hundred thousand people have already fled libya. with reports. people are fleeing the country we saw scores of refugees coming out of libya and according to the united nations over three hundred thousand people have already for the country it's thought that nearly ten thousand refugees are clearly at libya's borders with egypt and tunisia and dozens of more are expected to draw in them so this kind of gives a picture on the humanitarian situation in the country we spoke with one family the war from being guys the leaders who are the situation the terrible the said it was absolutely impossible for them to live there anymore so they decided to wait it out in egypt see what's happening and maybe come back if things settle down the also told us that some of the gaddafi supporters who are acting undercover inside bin

guys the war captured by the opposition so in that sense there's still activity going on in the bin guys itself just on thursday the united nations and met to discuss the humanitarian situation in the country strongly criticizing what's happening there and actually judging by these figures over three hundred thousand people already left libya it's a real humanitarian crisis and seoul so for the main goal of this military operation to reinforce the north winds on which was to help ordinary libyans there still has not been a cheap. course want to see what's going on there are also keeping right up to date on the situation in libya during that twitter feed. so let's say from the transit research institute who says that nato is just a cover for the u.s. and the libyan mission is all about getting control of the country's oil. when

people get killed where there is strikes in afghanistan they kill innocent people they always use the term nato it's mostly the us and yes the prime minister of turkey is one hundred percent correct again the hypocrisy is before our very own eyes it's so all this is is the united states doing what it's become accustomed to do and that is attack any country it wants to at any time the any reason that it could make up and the new reason that they made up is perfectly orwellian a humanitarian crisis so you kill people to solve the humanitarian crisis and you take dictators out that you don't like because really what's behind this and i've said it before would united states be in iraq if their major export was broccoli or would they be in libya. if they weren't holding on to this sweet

crude oil on the planet and the events in libya are a bit of a reminder of the post as we learned just a few minutes we're going to come to be playing out with echoes of the u.s. led campaign in yugoslavia twelve years ago that was a little which claimed at least three thousand civilian lives. there's more money is splashed on military campaigns abroad protests in brussels right against budget cuts as the eurozone is don't get another blow. now part two are sure of japan japan says the core of a reactor three at the fukushima nuclear power plant may now have brain damaged the country is expanding the evacuation zone around the site saying there he is receiving years a dose of radiation each and every day. i don't know if. he has the latest from japan. it's been exactly two weeks since an earthquake and then

a tsunami there was state of the fukushima nuclear power plant out unfortunately the engineers still haven't been able to neutralize the threat we have received news that the integrity of one of the cause of the reactors has been compromised meaning that's radiation cannot possibly leak out this is a troublesome reactor number three this is a reactor which operates on plutonium it's also the reactor which emitted smoke over the past few days perhaps these are early indicators of what has just been reported as well in connection with these events attract the three workers at the other reactors have also. there has been a lot of controversy to the dangers which are posed that if people thought outside the station as soon as the accident took place the government instituted a twenty kilometer evacuation zone and now it's saying that there's only has to be extended to thirty kilometers we don't just saying that this expanded so isn't because of any great danger but simply for the comfort of the people who are living in there to provide them with better infrastructure and housing but the same time

the saudi ministry has come out with a different report saying that any people within a thirty kilometer radius of the fukushima nuclear power plant are getting as much as one dose of one yearly dose of radiation every single day while a lot of the media attention has been focused on the nuclear threat by far the largest that has been produced by a danish will and that's followed the latest figures show that at least ten thousand people are dead and seventeen thousand people are missing and with each day that goes by the number of those missing that are alive is likely to be small and. nuclear energy expert dr robert jacobs explains why receiving a year's dose of radiation in one day is a real danger for those still close to the site. there's been high levels of radiation detected out of the twenty kilometer limit already in what you have been when you have radiation levels of that of that level is that in

a week or two you'll have people that are experiencing the radiation exposure of nuclear plant workers or you know over the course of their career and these are people in a situation where there's been an earthquake there's been a tsunami there's a shortage of food there's a shortage of water so their health is already stressed their bodies are already stressed they may not be in heat in the homes at night they may not be getting electricity so the impact of these exposures will be even larger to receive in the course of a week or two the exposure to the nuclear plant workers receiving their entire lives is rather dire and these people should not be allowed to remain in such an exposure area you are without a live from moscow a u.s. soldier is seeking political asylum in germany after deciding an american a military base if extradited to his home country he could face life in prison or even the death penalty because of a veteran at the center of the scandal. the very thing we've seen. for example. with a really good for me

a personal favorite was the rollercoaster they can't. even comes close that much for andre shoprite he's alive has become one giant roller coaster four years ago he deserted the u.s. army passing out the way to his native cleveland for wrapping up his mom cried with pride when he volunteered for the army but after a six month tour of duty in iraq andrei walked off the u.s. base in germany and never read. anything that anyone could possibly imagine and terms of war crimes that were coming at the world history. the american forces have done this and are continuing to do this on a daily basis so that we're going to take them somewhere but they didn't know where so they just shot off right then we had different direction after hiding out for more than a year andrea shepherd so faced you meredith gemma sick using cell support from a number of human rights organizations and is now officially seeking asylum tucked

away on the bulletin of germany and austria lake cames it has long been popular with holiday makers but now the ideal exports may also go down in history as the whole all the post u.s. iraq war veteran granted political asylum to become dispersed is not going to be easy though germany is the main staging post for the u.s. military with around sixty thousand u.s. troops stationed there each year some of those soldiers though a while and get the top by the police the pressure is very high on germany and i'm very often said in his speeches he's so sorry about that you know into putting so much pressure on the german government also we really love this country so much hundred will argue in court the war in iraq was a complete fraud but the lawyers say he has little chance of winning these he go to

war with the u.s. it's particularly. more difficult if it is a war such as the war in afghanistan for example the workbook you wore where there was a lot of talk here over that if we just started having rows of soldiers deciding on the road that they were no longer going to become a member of the united states military apparatus we have a problem and so there are very harsh penalties for wife. including the possibility the mainstream media in the so-called coalition countries are not in a hurry to give andry a say either a major corporation with a c.c. and then what would happen is they could place it anything that was controversial would go against the government line it would be completely censored andras says he's ready for the battle of his life claiming there was no just occasion for the

war in iraq but he admits he's on a sleeper a slope if you do a great show of archie but now i'm keen germany. which are now are just turning up a quarter past the hour here in moscow coming back to our situation in libya right now and several u.n. members including russia have expressed their concern over the risk to civilians as nato forces continue their went but as i understand here truckin of reports of the events in libya echo nato bombings in the balkans from twelve years ago. in march seasons change sunshine invites americans onto the streets american politicians invite themselves to foreign countries. and march nine hundred ninety nine the u.s. and its nato allies yugoslavia armed forces joined our nato allies and airstrikes against serbian forces responsible for the brutality in kosovo march two thousand and eleven america's next president and didn't call the mission of the willing attack libya the u.n.

security council passed a strong resolution that demands an end to the violence against. it authorizes the use of force it was sanctioned by the one security council in contrast to the bombings of the slavia there was no such greenlights in one thousand nine hundred nine in the bombings were led by nieto the first time a military alliance atop a sovereign nation a non-lethal member causing no threat to the group similarly libya poses no external threat and there are other striking parallels between the conduct of these wars the enemy then slobodan milosevic jobbed the new hitler the enemy of today the eccentric moammar qaddafi and power for over forty years now similarly villainize to by the us. these to step down from power and we've gone now and back then getting rid of a leader no longer favored by the west taking sides with a questionable opposition and what started as a civil war what we're seeing is

a four flush war including attempting didn't lead to kill or the head of state of the targeted country and other leaders of the government that again is you know a page from the yugoslav bloc of years ago. what is the world learned only one march the official reason for western involvement a so-called humanitarian mission a term coined amid bombings of nine hundred ninety nine if you know it's who you say look at all because this is going to save its people. the same street that was . all it was a russian else still relied upon put widely questioned you need to know as a resident of syria's whether it was a. citizen of the killing received. as he will here is a serious the engine of that machine both then and now a no fly zone fueled in libya by the additional all necessary measures where the

line between the enemy in a foreign land and its civilians often gets blurred he did. in yugoslavia with thousands of people killed and close to one million displaced after the war when they did a count they found the u.s. nato bombs had destroyed fourteen tanks and serbia fourteen tanks but they had also four hundred thirty seven schools a similar scenario is now predicted in libya obama vows the anti could argue war will last days and not weeks that was the field plan in the yugoslavia bombings lasted two and a half months they think that a quick bit of bombing will sort the matter out but in fact i think they will find that it will last far longer than they have gone before twelve years on serbia still remembers the losses inflicted by u.s. nato bombings the u.s. is now involved in its fourth of a foreign nation in the same twelve years and this in turkey or fourteen new york.

next hour here on r.t. will be dissecting the libyan conflict in cross-talk concerns that nato is involved but could become a sort of history repeating itself. u.s. british foreign policy objectives would be the removal could of his regime u.n. security council resolution one hundred seventy three short of that clearly but it does have the mandate in the open ended mandate to protect civilians and so that's what much of this comes down to and that's what are you from the top of this debate about the end state and all the controversy flowing from that but frankly i think if we look at previous no fly zones that are remarkably in effect if any. of the was near chief and proud to be a little no fly zone over iraq did have better achievements but look at the length of time that these operations went on for. and coming your way in just over an hour's time here over here now e.u. leaders have agreed on the restructuring of

a bailout fund designed to resolve the euro zone's ongoing debt crisis the summit in brussels has been overshadowed by a new threat to the currency as portugal could become the next country to ask for financial support parties i don't know which one has more on the latest blow to the euro zone. no more layoffs to pay cuts no later retirement the message from twenty thousand angry demonstrators pushed back with water cannons and pepper spray by riot police the protesters tried to get through to e.u. leaders meeting in brussels to slash spending this money was made. to be used for such a curious thing to be used for this is a health nut job the bank sure when you heard. that the world's first move to take brand because of the prison there goes across europe voters are saying no thirty measures portugal's prime minister has quit of the parliament voted down

a fresh round of cuts because he has three months left to repay almost ten billion euro at a time when its sovereign credit rating has been called. the only option left is national default to tell when does the country called pay back its loans or accept an e.u. bailout similar to greece and ireland hasn't happened in the west since the second world war but the longer you respond this necessary evil. the more costly it is there's going to be at the same time military intervention in libya is costly hundreds of millions of euros maybe a few areas so what they see is an unnecessary and expensive campaign somebody asked the. finance minister about the financing of this and i think the overwhelming sense that you got from it among the public and with skepticism with millions unemployed across europe people losing patience with politicians who seem

out of touch with reality increasingly familiar sights on the streets of the e.u. was built tightly east growing numbers out of work the big question is now the right time to spend the money available on wars abroad. there you go sure see us. right now let's get some other stories making headlines around the world this hour in me an m r a six point eight magnitude earthquake has left over sixty people dead the quake struck around lunchtime on thursday and was centered close to the border with thailand over one hundred buildings were destroyed and roads have not been closed in thailand the tremors caused residents to flee their apartments and one woman died when a brick wall collapsed on. protesters in syria plan to hold a day of dignity on friday to expand the demonstrations across the country the plans come despite president bashar assad to pledging to grown people greater

political freedoms and raise public pay roll in the southern city of daraa thousands of people continue to rally against the forty eight year rule of the bath party activists claim dozens of green shot dead and many arrested in security forces as they clamp down over the last few days. and a wildfire in colorado has engulfed about sixteen hundred acres of land in a denver suburb that's forcing over eight thousand residents to flee their homes this is the second major wildfire to erupt this week because of which is on the blaze which started on thursday is being driven by winds of more than fifty kilometers per hour thought fighters have now managed to contain about seventy percent of the fire so far and no injuries have been reported at this point. it's hard not to turn over if you can be a tree he's got the latest from the world business. welcome to business are saying if you arctic exploration assets talk to your

between oil majors p.p. and russia state run ross they have announced way back in january has been blocked now by the stockholm arbitration tribunals the case was brought by a.a. are they russian shareholders of t.n. k b p and existing partners of the british oil company in russia now earlier we spoke to rolling national capital and here's his assessment of the new twist in the story. i think there's a lot of value to be unlocked between the deal between b.p. and rolls you have to. give there's a lot of value you've got to find some way of sharing that value around to make the deal happen so the ending this is the last we've heard of it i think that the russian shareholders in a b p want to make sure that they get some of this value which can be unlocked by the deal how that happens i think is going to be the next step and what do you think are there any other incentives to b.p. for ross never to find a partner for example. creates it's

a very interesting project you know the unlocking of the arctic hydrocarbons in the arctic is something that i think a lot of the oil companies would want to look at we've had several deals in the last couple of months with no overt acts on with rosneft in other areas so i think there would be other international oil majors that would be interested in looking at the deal but you know b.p. is the most experienced western oil company in russia it's closest obviously to the deal there the obvious candidates to to make this happen so if it's not b.p. i think it's going to take a lot longer to get to some sort of deal all right so the russian government bring to ensure that this deal goes through what do you think. i think that the russian government could talk to the russian shareholders in t.n. k b p i'd be really surprised if somebody as the. friedman within to yankee b.p. had already spoken to the to the russian government so i imagine that dialogue is

going to continue you know i don't see this is a particular shock this deal that the that the judgment the court judgment i think this is sort of the next step. in a game plan that we will see the result of over the next several months i think this is the last step or two. i left technocrat how the markets are reacting to this blocking of the go between ross nafta and b.p. b.p. is spalding one that's. cent here in london meanwhile the markets themselves are actually growing point three percent. now in russia lying is back in the country strong first day session of the like to look correction in the morning after the central bank decided to leave interest rates unchanged to increase reserve requirements for banks by one point two five and a half percent. to stop standing for ross nafis who also holding out as a result of this story deal with bt is being blocked ross article however is up five point seven percent as it becomes the sole companies of the straits of the

information society space project which means it will be receiving a lot of new contracts burbank is trading in the black on news that has increased its stake in the my sector from seven to ten percent a nice technology as are the process of appropriate number of jobs. and that's all we have time for now i'll be back in one hour's time with an update stay with us.

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